$create_pkg_body = "CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY ARRAYBINDPKG1 AS CURSOR CUR IS SELECT name FROM bind_example; PROCEDURE iobind(c1 IN OUT ARRTYPE) IS BEGIN -- Bulk Insert FORALL i IN INDICES OF c1 INSERT INTO bind_example VALUES (c1(i));

-- Fetch and reverse IF NOT CUR%ISOPEN THEN OPEN CUR; END IF; FOR i IN REVERSE 1..5 LOOP FETCH CUR INTO c1(i); IF CUR%NOTFOUND THEN CLOSE CUR; EXIT; END IF; END LOOP; END iobind;END ARRAYBINDPKG1;";$stid = oci_parse($conn, $create_pkg_body);oci_execute($stid);

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Note that it looks like you can't bind a multi-dimensional array with this method. If you try, you'll get a Notice about Array to string conversion, and your PL/SQL will end up with a one-dimensional array filled with the a lot of string values, all saying "Array". :|

We were able to get the example included for the "OCI_BIND_ARRAY_BY_NAME" to work. However, the example is NOT actually binding with a PL/SQL array of any type. It is writing data to an Oracle table named "bind_example". Notice how this table is created. The table does NOT have an array type as one of its fields. Since this is the case, there cannot be any binding to a PL/SQL array because at least one field in the table must be either a VARRAY, NESTED TABLE or ASSOCIATIVE ARRAY data type. We searched the Internet and could not find any examples that actually read from a PL/SQL array type. We were able to get data from a PL/SQL VARRAY data type, but only by using a SELECT statement.